Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3977, 30 July 1929, Page 2

Manawatu Herald TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1929. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Levin Co-(Hi. i>niry L ».» he . ;: i i'.'iu!i'll L i.DO inwards ill Ear Uupmke Relief Fund. Al Thursday's meeting of H’ ' .xlmi Lunch Club, Air. H• Bond, Comity engineer, will delivi .'„i address on the subject ot' "IWu Engineering.”

Be sure you get the "Heeord pad when purchasing vouv writing mat,.rial. Four hundred pages <.•; ruled bond writing paper ntr 1/---The Mnimwalu lferald, 1* ox ton. The s.s. Him a fungi, which arrived in port on Sunday leaded its first shipment of eniltle lor the Aodinglonmarket to-day. The Iliumtung'i Is considered to be one >1 iheWost- catfk’ carrying- boats <-n the coast. At Sydemhanii on Sunday the ial i:(>i’ and mot her of the family res- , there died within ten minutes of each other. Neither knew <n ih,. sltaflow of death hovering over the other. One was John Quinlan, (I 7", years, and the other Airs. Laid gel' Quinlan, aged 72 years. ,’drs. Quinlan iunl been sullering iron) hroueldiis for two years and li t .v illness beeamo serious on i’ 11-0.-;v night, when ;i doctor was called fin. Mr. Quinlan was taken di on Tuesday last and his eondii'i >n 1 awards the end of flic week was so seirious rlmt :ii was not deemed advisable to leil him of his wife s illness. .petition signed by most of the Shannon business linns, was presented to the monthly meeting cl. the Shannon Borough Couneil last wee!;, entering an emphatic protest against Saturday being made l ue universal ball, holiday. A round the table diseussimi ensued, most of the councillors having something ,« sny oil the subject, the council having recently fixed t lii* weekly lmii •■holiday as Wednesday. Cr. A »<!«<■- son moved an amendment, to a supporting motion that the Couir il •support n. universal Saturday' haii holiday. This was lost on Hie Mayor’s easting vote"and the motion was carried.

The decision ol the Government to undertake an economic survey of the Maoris is additional evidcime, if such weire needed, Hint. the Dominion is fully alive to its responsibilities concerning flic future welfare of the. Native race (remarks the Lyttelton Times editorially). During recent years self lenient of claims for compensation for confiscated lands, recognition of various Minor! rights, extensive medical and educational services, rigid serntinv by the Lund Courts to pre-

x cut holism irinate alienation of iuuu, all go to show that the Maoris are being fairly avid ,just!y r treated. The projected survey of lands field j, v (he Native race will show to what use the thousands of acres in Maori lands ajre uuw being put.

An uncommon maintenance ae(.i>ii was beard in the Falmersloii North .Magistrate's Court yesterday, when Daphne Watson, ol ,p,.;p,. proceeded against Robert Watson, of Dunedin, her i'a--1 lier-iin-Inw, lor maintenance, 01. hci child. Counsel explained that plaintiff's husband bail left New Zealand and was thought to be in . yd, i", -v. An order bad Ibeen made against the husband for £2 a week, lull jhe lirtler bad i brown up bis position in the railway at Palmerston. North avid bad bad his superannuation forwarded to him. His Worship granted an order against the grand fat her of the child for 10/- a week, stating that if the husband could be found, proceedings were to be taken against him under the original order. When your w his liters sprout, my boy, you are a man, Bo act the part and do the best you

can; Be upright, brave, and true, Push your weight till all is blue. Don’t be among the ones who “also ran,” And, Jimmy, just be sure; Take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure, Fn order every cough and cold to ban. —Advt 15.

When buying writing material ,t, sn , j .forget to call in.to flic “MannHerald" Ofii’ee. We offer the mammoth -JDO page pad for 1/-, -. 11 (1 envelopes from, fifty for <d. The secretary bf the Post and Telegraph Department advises: "■•Arrangements ■ have been made v. hereby Aicro K.hibs and aviators uiav forward telegrams to any Postmaster requesting information regarding the state of the weather." “Most men that 1 know,” declared Professor Murphy in an address .it the Farmers’ Institute, Wellington. oil “Public Expenditure," “can u , V ,| U all [lie records relating to Iviigbv football -nil’ horse racing, but •it von ask them anything about the public debt of the Dominion they know nothing about il, and do not want to lienP anything about it. IC you ask them what Sir Joseph Word said at. Invercargill or what Mr" Coates said at Auckland, you v, ill find that they do not very much rare what either said.” (Laughter). Air. W. IT. iorns, chairman of (he Daii v Produce Board, in his monfcli!v review of the industry, related a .■iir,ions instance of either carelessness in .manufacture or wilful inis- , hid’. lie .was dealing with insurance cover and explained what it did not insure producers against. ••For instance,” lie -said, “if cheese develops a bad. flavour due to I‘aul- !■. mill;, such deterioration is not covered; nor is live loss which was incurred last season by reason of

,1 fieri- hot lie being found embedded hi the cent re of one of Hie cheese.-’ The bottle, apparently, was empty. The attitude of parents io their children in the sixteenth century as .••omtpared with the .present day was referred to at Auckland by Professor A. B. Fill 'in -a 'lecture on the Elizabethan Age. One writer of the period, said Professor Fitt, had stated that an adult demanded complete humility from children. Grown-up daughters were placed I. ~ st.ilucs iii jn loom apart from (hHi- oldms. They were not allow-

ed in si; m their presence but only @ kneel on a cushion. Sons hated am! were afraid of their fathers and .whipping was the order of the day, l Of the two attitudes Ido not know which is the better, ’ Prot.essm- i ilf said. “I. do believe 1 would rather go back to Elizabethan times. There is certainly a vivid contrast with our own times, but after all i'll is new freedom is only a .new kind of fyiranny. The ttyrannv to-day is only the other way round." Exti.Tit from the log of the marooned -‘Southern Cross;” Monday, April o!It, "Our 'tobacco van , [o-(inv." W|e tried to smoke haves but it was awful." Only smokHrs know wliat that meant! v'ast away on a dreary mud Hat Du lured With thirst, starving, mad'iei.-.d with (lies, and no tobae(i! When tilings look blaVk and lo veless, '(hero’s nothing like a

smoke 1 But to experience the calming, soi.'iiliiiig, cheering influence of Inbant-o lo the Dili, it must be pure h-o!uleiv. The world’s purest tobacco is Hint .grown and manufaoj cicd in New Zealand by the National Tobacco Co., Ltd., (pioneers ,T Die tobacco industry in this country). It is the only toasted lobaeico procurable. Hence its freedom from nicotine and its famous darnur avid aroma. You can t smoko oilier tobaccos habitually with impunity, but you can smoke iiie, National goods all the time and lake no harm. There’s a brand for I'vei'v smokier. “Eivorlioud G-old is wort ami miild, “Cavendish” and “Navy Cut” are both medium, and "v ut plug No. 10” is rich, dark and i a !1 -llavouired. —Advt. 17.